Business Quote by Elvis Presley

Rock and roll seems to have had a mellowing in the business where it got harder to sell individual records and make money doing…

— Conor Oberst

All record companies want big-selling records, and my music is a little too raw for commercial success.

— J. J. Cale

You're not going out there to make a living out of it by selling records. You want acclaim and you want to know people…

— Kevin Drew

You gotta remember: the record industry, in order for it to really thrive, has got to attract great people.

— Jimmy Iovine

The music business has changed incredibly. There used to be 50 record companies. Now there's only three, and it's just getting smaller and smaller.…

— Joey McIntyre

For us, selling a million records in 2005 is the equivalent of selling 2 to 3 million records (five years ago). Rock records aren't…

— Jacoby Shaddix

The record business has always mystified me. Sometimes there are reasons why things sell or don't sell that can't be understood by mere mortals.

— Paul Shaffer

People will always have the desire to make rock and roll records, and they'll always have the desire to sell rock and roll records.…

— Frank Zappa

The record business is an oxymoron. In the 1960s, there was an upside to selling plastic discs so labels took the risk - they…

— Tom Silverman

There's always this talk of the industry of music and about selling records and whatever, but that ignores probably the majority of music that…

— Jason Pierce

Before the whole [music] business was calibrated around the selling of records. I never could have imagined that live performance would become kind of…

— Arthur Fogel

I know the history of the record business so well because I followed Billie Holiday into the record studios. It was so primitive compared…

— Tony Bennett